From 1989-1996, Sheila Tobias was on a long-term research and writing assignment for the Research Corporation, a foundation for the advancement of science in Tucson, Arizona, to study "neglected issues" in science and mathematics education, including manpower and policy issues. Author, in that capacity, of three books (see below) and presenter and advisor in numerous settings. Prior to that she spent twelve years as an academic administrator at Cornell and Wesleyan Universities, with particular responsibility for the social sciences and for women's programming.

Ms. Tobias currently works in the areas of women-in-mathematics, women-in-science, feminist studies, math anxiety, science manpower education and placement issues, and post-baccalaureate alternatives for science and mathematics majors. She's had previous appointments at Vanderbilt University, Universities of California at San Diego and at Davis, Carleton College.

Outreach and Dissemination Coordinator for the Sloan Foundation's Science Master's Initiative www.sciencemasters.com

Visiting Lecturer (summers only) Graduate School of Education, The Claremont Graduate School, with responsibility for a course and independent study in "Gender Issues in Education."

Consultant on science manpower and national utilization of science professionals to US Universities.

Consultant on curriculum broadening to Universities of Amsterdam and of Leiden (The Netherlands).

Books (in reverse chronological order):
The Hidden Curriculum: Faculty-Made Tests in Science (with Jacqueline Raphael) (NY: Plenum Press, 1997)
Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement (Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1997)
Rethinking Science as a Career: Perceptions and Realities in the Physical Sciences (Tucson: Research Corp., 1995)
Revitalizing Undergraduate Science: Why Some Things Work and Most Don't (Tucson: Research Corporation, 1992)
Breaking the Science Barrier (with Carl Tomizuka) (New York: The College Board, 1992).
They're not Dumb, They're Different: Stalking the Second Tier (Tucson: Research Corp., 1990).
Women, Militarism and War (with Jean B. Elshtain) (Univ. Press of America, 1990).
Succeed with Math: Every Student's Guide to Conquering Math Anxiety (New York: The College Board, 1987).
The People's Guide to National Defense (New York: William Morrow, 1982).
Overcoming Math Anxiety (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978 and, revised, 1994).
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, part-year, Univ. of Calif. San Diego, 1984-1992

Lecture on "The Politics of Peace" Univ. of Southern California, 1983-1987. Associate in Anxiety in Learning, Washington Institute of Psychiatry, 1977-81. Associate Provost, Wesleyan University, Middletown Conn., 1970-1978. Assistant to VP Academic Affairs, Cornell Univ., 1967-1970.

Board and Committee Memberships:
Member: National Women's History Project Board 2000-present.
Adviser: NSF-funded Chemistry Undergraduate Consortium 1996-present.
Adviser: NSF-funded Long Island Mathematics Consortium 1996-present.
Adviser: NSF-funded United Connecticut for Girls project, 1995-1997.
Member: American Association of Higher Education Board, 1992-1996.
Member: American Political Science Association, Education Committee 1996-1999.
Member: American Council of Learned Societies, Liberal Arts Colleges Awards Committee 1994-1996.
Member: Board of Curators (Trustees), Stephens College, 1977-1986.
Member: NOW Legal Defense and Education Board, 1974-1978.

Education:
BA Radcliffe (Harvard-Radcliffe) Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
MA and M.Phil Columbia University
PhD Honorary, Wheelock College, Drury College, Bridgewater State College, SUNY Potsdam, Albright College

Other Writing:
More than 150 articles for wide variety of publications, popular to scholarly.

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